#Survive5 - Our favourite tweets

May 06 / Global Week of Action

One Goal has joined World Vision and Child Health Now's Global Week of Action, 1-8 May, standing up for child health. In an effort to raise awareness on Twitter of global and local issues preventing children from achieving a healthy life, the Global Week of Action's 24-hour tweetathon began 5 May at 0:00 GMT. Every hour for 24 hours, global partners for child health hosted their own hour of #Survive5 -- using this hashtag on Twitter to spread a message: All children should survive to five.

One Goal hosted the 04:00 GMT hour with tweets on nutrition, football, and the role we're asking football fans across Asia to play in addressing child malnutrition. This is a recap of our hour and of our favourite #Survive5 tweets from all 24-hours of the tweetathon.

Today 18,000 children will not live to see their fifth birthday. Every year, 6.6 million unseen, uncounted and invisible children under age five lose their lives to preventable causes such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and undernutrition. We need political will and action so that all children can Survive 5.